Installing Fedora Core 4 on a Fedora Core 2 drive

[loninappleton]

Is it possible to install the Fedora Core 4 release on my
Fedora Core 2 disk and thereby save all my settings?

As a dialup user, it's likely I'll have to purchase an ISO
on dvd. Is there a preferred place to do that?

[peters]

All Fedoras should upgrade cleanly and without problems.

For CDs I'd recommend CheapBytes, they've been in the business for a long time.

http://cheapbytes.com/

[sylvestre]

I have experienced problems upgrading (FC n) to (FC n+2), whereas the upgrade from n to n+1 works without any problem.
To be more precise, I have had no problem upgrading from FC1 to FC2, and subsequently to FC3 (and also from FC3 to FC4 test3 on my home PC), whereas I have not been able to upgrade from FC1 to FC3 in a single step.

For that reason, I have decided to upgrade all the machines running Fedora when a new release is out (I maintain several machines at work, and I don't want to reconfigure them from scratch, if possible...)

[sfabkk]

All versions of fedora will upgrade to the newer version but fedora Core 3 has Logical volumes as default partitioning and core 2 and below does not. When you upgrade and you wish to keep your settings you will have to request to keep your existing LINUX partitions intact. If you are unfamiliar with the differences between Logical volumes Conventional partitions then check this link:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...library/l-lvm/

Sometimes the improvements that are implemented into fedora are at the foundation level and given the benefits of Logical volumes you want a clean install, but you be the judge. I personally Have Core 2 on all mine boxes and held off on Core 3 because of this and am going to start fresh with Core 4. I have numerous applications the require larges amounts of configuration such as Vmware, Wine, Nessus, and MySql /php, so it is not worth the trouble once a year to upgrade but every other year is do able.
Hope this helped
Sfabkk

[sfabkk]

sorry, if this is more clear;
Core 3 and above has Logical volumes as default